RetroPie 3.0 is Released

After 6 months of hard work we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.0.

This retro-gaming project brings together a collection of popular emulators for those computers and consoles that you grew up with from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, all wrapped up and ready to run on the famous Raspberry Pi. From Atari 2600, to Sega Mega Drive to Sony PlayStation, all your favourite systems are covered. What are you waiting for – get playing!

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Moved RetroArch joypad configurations to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

3.0 BETA 3: 10th June 2015

Integrated controls configuration for EmulationStation and RetroArch – On first start EmulationStation will ask for controls to be configured, and will then also configure RetroArch based on your choices. Note that there will be a delay after selecting OK whilst this is done – this will be improved later to give feedback so it doesn’t look as though EmulationStation has frozen.

Overhaul of emulator selection / launching – single rom folder per platform, with the facility to change default emulator per platform or per rom on launch. Also allows launch of certain emulators with specific configurations, such as render plugin for mupen64plus, and model configuration for fuse.

RetroArch render resolution is also configurable on launch. Video output is no longer switched by default, but can be adjusted by the user if needed.

Emulationstation entries are now sorted (by name) – should mostly match alphabetical order of rom folders.

Work to ensure user configurations are preserved. More configuration files moved to /opt/retropie/configs/ structure.

EmulationStation restarts on exit by default unless a key is pressed. Makes it easier for those that want to restart quickly and let it pick up any new roms.

New platforms.cfg file that contains emulator names / supported file extensions. This can be copied to /opt/retropie/configs/all to override extensions added to emulationstation (A reinstall / re-configuration of the a related emulator is needed after to update the emulation station configuration)

Addition of AdvanceMAME 1.2 (based on MAME 0.106) which may be useful for rpi2 owners over the 0.94 version. Framebuffer output code adjusted to work better with the Pi.

rpix86 is included again by default (was missing from the last image).

Updates to the usbromservice. If you want to sync rom folders it now requires a folder in the root of the usb stick called “retropie”. The roms will be synced from a sub folder called roms. It also can backup/restore your custom emulationstation gameslists / data.

I just installed this version on a Raspberry Pi 2B. I have it connected to a CRT tv via the 3.5 jack. No matter what I do, the aspect ratio is off and spilling off screen. Even the boot is falling over the edges. HOW DO I FIX THIS? Never had a problem with 2.6 on a Raspberry Pi B+.

Hey guys, thanks a lot for all your efforts! I just bought a Raspberry Pi 2 and installed Retropie 3.0 and there’s some fantastic potential with this little device.

I just wanted to give some feedback. I primarily bought a Pi 2 to use as a NES and SNES emulator and so far the controller integration seems great and the NES emulation works very well but I am having serious problems with the SNES emulation. Half of my selected roms don’t even start up with the default emulator (lr-snes9x-next) and cycling through all the emulators to find the one that works best is a cumbersome process and feels like there are actually too many emulators to choose from. Even then, a number of my roms still do not run very well no matter which emulator I tried. I love snes9x on windows and android so I’m looking forward to seeing how it can be optimized in future versions of Retropie.

In case of roms not launching at all: be sure, that your roms are named without spaces, i.e. Super Mario World.smc should be Super_Mario_World.smc or something else without spaces in the name. Hope this solves your problem. SNES emulation works flawlessly on my RPi 1 B+, so I’d imagine it should run flawlessly also on RPi 2.

Does anyone have the problem when you type startx to start the xserver? When I did a little white box would appear in the upper lefthand corner of my screen with the ascii looking owl and some of the info ie pi’s IP address and etc. . It would not load the Graphical Interface

Where are these tools in ES… I don’t see them in the menus (I’m 90% sure I’m missing something totally obvious)… ” Lots of configuration tools accessible from Emulation station including setting up WiFi, a configuration editor, file manager, audio settings and more.”

How do I disable this or set a single button hotkey? Controllers like Dualshock 3/4 display the menu on nearly every launch because of the gyroscope. You have to keep the controller perfectly still when you launch a game or the menu annoyingly impedes gameplay.